Consciousness, Creativity, Spirituality, and Self-Compassion with Ricky Derisz

This week, I sat down to chat with Ricky Derisz, author of Mindsets for Mindfulness: Awakening From Crisis To Higher Consciousness and creator of MindThatEgo , a new paradigm for mental illness, spirituality, creativity, consciousness, and human potential. In this episode, he shares his insights on meditation, intrinsic motivation, ikigai, intentionality, intuition, interdependence, and intimacy. Time stamps: 00:44 The enchanted worldview, meditation, perception, & the nature of reality 04:05 Mind-body connection, interconnected consciousness, metaphysics 07:22 Models of depression: chemical imbalance , root-cause analysis, biological vs spiritual, ego dissolution 14:51 Spiritual but not religious (SBNR) label, esoteric vs exoteric, spiritual narcissism 19:05 Self-compassion and self-criticism, suffering and empathy, self-awareness 24:15 Intrinsic motivation, permissionless leverage, creativity 29:19 Westernization of ikigai, meaning and purpose, non-attachment to ideas 32:56 Paradox of intentionality, specialists vs generalists, experimentation, shiny object syndrome 36:50 Committing to creative endeavors, self-honesty, intuition, sunk cost fallacy 40:13 Throwaway culture, paradox of choice, satisficers vs maximizers, healthy expectations 45:30 Effective communication vs protest behavior, ask vs guess culture, emotional reactivity 51:25 Equanimity , autonomy vs interdependence, attachment styles 53:49 Codependency, interabled relationships, gender roles , social conditioning 59:44 Emotional dependency vs intimacy, stability and security, mutual support 01:02:34 Understanding, empaths and sensitivity, responsibility, curiosity mindset 01:08:47 Growing through adversity, challenges, and forgiveness 01:11:02 Bearing witness , holding space, being present to diffuse emotional reactivity You can follow Ricky on Instagram , Facebook , and Medium and listen to his podcast on YouTube !

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Consciousness, Creativity, Spirituality, and Self-Compassion with Ricky Derisz is an episode from Evolving with Nita Jain: Health | Science | Self-Improvement by Insights designed to help you strive, thrive, and optimize — science, psychology, philosophy, health, longevity, productivity, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.

This episode is 75:33 long.

This episode was published on Sep 15, 2022.

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